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  • Conversations on Dying

    A Palliative-Care Pioneer Faces His Own Death

    by Phil Dwyer ...
    The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well.We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey. Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.Unlike the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    by Paul Kalanithi ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?**“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Dying in Public: Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

    by Sue Hendler, Christine Overall ...
    As a university professor, an environmentalist, and a world-traveller, Sue Hendler was thriving. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She had to give up her job, make hard decisions about medical treatment, and drastically shorten her vision of the future. As her cancer spread, she ironically acquired a new identity as a cancer “survivor.” Compelled to find meaning in her “new ... Read more

    $2.30 USD

  • Grace and Grit

    A Love Story

    by Ken Wilber ...
    Coming soon as a Major Motion PictureHere is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • I'll Shave My Head Too

    A Father's Stories Through the Happy Hell of Childhood Cancer

    by Steve Dolling ...
    Spencer was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma at the age of six. Tracey and Steve did what most parents try to do: provide a fun and stimulating environment for their kids to grow in and reach their full potential. Foster did what brothers do: he offered up his bone marrow and rode shotgun in the all-terrain electric assault vehicle. Scupper did what sinister Portuguese Water Dogs do: he tried ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Every Third Thought

    On life, death and the endgame

    by Robert McCrum ...
    As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful'** Kate MosseIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beyond Surviving

    Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey

    by David Maginley ...
    What if you could use cancer to evolve more fully into love?David Maginley has been there – four times. His cancer led to a near-death experience and a career helping thousands face this disease. Through profound storytelling, David brings you to the core of the cancer journey to discover the hero within. In Beyond Surviving, you will learn how to:- Turn the mind into an ally as you grapple with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Living in the Light of Death

    On the Art of Being Truly Alive

    by Larry Rosenberg ...
    This book presents the Buddhist approach to facing the inevitable facts of growing older, getting sick, and dying. These tough realities are not given much attention by many people until midlife, when they become harder to avoid. Using a Buddhist text known as the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, Larry Rosenberg shows how intimacy with the realities of aging can actually be used as a means ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Finding Your Way through Cancer

    An Expert Cancer Psychologist Helps Patients and Survivors Face the Challenges of Illness

    by Andrew Kneier ...
    Cancer psychologist Andrew Kneier has devoted his career to helping patients master the many challenges and dilemmas that come with a cancer diagnosis. From his work with thousands of people in therapy sessions and cancer support groups, Dr. Kneier has distilled the most common questions and concerns into ten free-standing essays that will help you work through whichever issues are most relevant ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Good Life to the End

    Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death

    by Ken Hillman ...
    A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary suffering and for humanity and gentle acceptance at the end of our lives.A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prevention is Better than Cure

    by Peter Holst ...
    PREVENTING IS BETTER THAN CURE  is Bad News for meat industry, tobacco industry, fast food industry and pharmaceutical industry Why?                                                         A cancer happens and often is not clear what caused the uncontrolled cell growth. We cannot know that cancer is present during most of its ... ... Read more

    $9.66 USD

  • At Peace

    Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

    by Samuel Harrington ...
    The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions. Many undergo painful procedures ... Read more

    $15.19 USD